Article of wearing-apparel provided with button-holes



(No Model.)

W. P. GROOM.

ARTICLE OF WEARING APPAREL PROVIDED WITH BUTTON HOLES. NO. 320,131. Patented June 16,1885.

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WALLACE l. GROOM, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

ARTICLE OF WEARING-APPAREL PROVIDED WITH BUTTON-HOLES.

EPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,131, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed April 3, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W'ALLAcE P. GROOM, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Articles of fearing-Apparel Provided with Button-Holes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is applicable more particularly to collars and cuffs, but may be embodied in other articles, the particular object being to facilitate the insertion of buttons and other fastening devices into collars, cuffs, and other articles, and also to facilitate their withdrawal when desired.

The invention is, among other things, intended for cuffs and collars made wholly or in part of chrolithion or other pyroxyline compound, or of paper, but may also with special advantage be embodied in linen goods which are to be starched or stiffened, and in other articles.

The invention consists in an article of wearing-apparel provided with a buttonhole having in one of its edges or lips a notch or recess, and having at its end an eyelet-hole or enlargement. The notch or recess receives the shank or base of a button which is to be inserted in the button-hole, and the eyelet or enlargement at the end of the button-hole gives flexibility to the lips or edges, and thereby facilitates the insertion of a button or stud into the button-hole and its removal therefrom.

The button-hole may consist of a slot uniform in width, save at the notch or recess and eyelet-hole or enlargement; or the button-hole may consist of a slot of sufficient width to receive the shank of a button, having at one end the eyelet or enlargement and at the other end the notch or recess, and a narrow slit extending beyond the notch or recess to form the necessary length of button-hole desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a cuff having button-holes embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a sectional view of a portion of a cuff with a sleeve button in the position which it occupies while being inserted in the button-hole. Fig. 3 represents a plan of the parts shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 represents the end portions of a collar having button-holes embodying my invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a cuff embodying my invention, and B B designate the two end portions of a collar also embodying my invention. The length of the cuff is reduced in the drawings.

0 C O designate button-holes in the cuff, which are slightly different in form, but all of which embody the essential features of my invention.

The button-hole 0 consists of a slot formed by removing a portion of the material or fabric, and has in one of its edges or lips, c, a notch or recess, a, at about midway of the length of the button-hole. The other lip or edge, a, is straight throughout, and at the end of the button-hole is an eyelet-hole or enlargement, 0 formed by removing a portion'of the fabric.

The button-holes Ohave in one edge of the lip c a notch or recess, a, as above described, and have the other edge or lip plain or straight, like the button-holeO; but the button-holes O differ from the button-hole O in that only the portion extending from the notch or recess a to the eyelet-hole or enlargement 0' consists of a slot, while the portion on the other side of the notch or recess consists only of a slit, and is formed without the removal of any material.

The button-hole 0 consists of a curved or arc-shaped slot of approximately uniform width throughout, having in its convex lip or edge 0 a notch or recess, a, and having an eyelet hole or enlargement, 0 at the outer end of the button-hole. The eyelet-hole or enlargement 0 will have its center in line with the center line of the button-hole, or may be offset entirely to one side thereof.

In Fig. l the button-holcs O 0 represent the eyelet-hole or enlargement c as formed in the center line of the button-hole, and the buttonhole 0 at the lower left-hand corner of the cuff represents a similar position of the eye let-hole or enlargement 0". In the buttonhole O at the upper right-hand corner of the cuff the eyelet-hole or enlargement o is represented as offset toward the lip or edge 0, and has its circumferencetangential with thelip or edge e.

The ends of the collar B (represented in Fig. 4) have in them button-holes G, which are similar to that shown in Fig. 1that is to say,

to enable the back plate, d, of the button to be readily pushed past the lip or edge a. For a like reason the eyelet-hole or enlargement c facilitates the removal of the sleeve-button D from the button-hole.

It will be observed that in-all the examples of my invention here shown the button-hole has in one lip' or edge a notch or recess, a, and

has at its end an eyelet-hole or enlargement, 0 which both of them combine to facilitate the ready insertion of a button into the button-hole or its removal therefrom.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An article of wearing-apparel provided with a button-hole having in one lip or edge a notch or recess, a, and having at its end an eyelet-hole or enlargement, 0 substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. An article of wearing-apparel provided with a button-hole having in one lip or edge a notch or recess, a, and having at its end the eyelet-holev or enlargement 0, that portion of thebutton-hole between the notch or recess andenlargement consisting of a slot to accommodate the'shank of a button, and that por-.

tion of the button-hole extending on the opposite side of the notch or recess consisting of a narrow slit, substantially as and for the pur-- pose herein described.

WALLACE P. GROOM.

Witnesses:

G. HALL, FREDK. HAYNES. 

